For Louisville Basketball, It's a Whole Different Show from a Year Ago

NEW YORK — Rick Pitino does not concern himself with tournament seedings — except, of course, when he does.
Like most of his peers, the University of Louisville men’s basketball coach is a pragmatist, disinclined to draw dogmatic lines that might suit his purpose poorly at a later date. So when he said two weeks ago, “I don’t really care where we’re seeded,” he was speaking in the abstract, temporal sense of a man with other things on his mind...